Lost Marbles

I’ve Lost My Marbles and Here They Are………

This series began in late January of this year while cleaning the studio. I had saved a pile of grey metal grids from a photography job thinking they might be an interesting background. I was inspired by the colors and shapes to try a wide-angle shot contrasting the squares with a blue marble. Thus began an almost daily visual exercise—a means of staying creatively limber. The scale of the marble allowed for exploring details in all sorts of props, forms, backgrounds, color, and reflections. Available light, especially shafts of sunlight, were often sources of delight. Thanks to the wonders of digital photography, I’ve used desk lamps, fluorescents, flashlights, as well as strobes in the studio. Adobe Photoshop software has been used to correct color balance, minimize dust and marble flaws.

As of early November, I’ve done several hundred of these photographic doodles and edited down to more than 90 images. They also appear in their own album on my Facebook page.

They are meant to be fun explorations. I hope you enjoy them.

thanks Georgia!

Spot of Red

hot enough?

deux en soleil

broken buds

looking for balance

Favorite portraits

Chicago Product days

I worked as an advertising photographer in Chicago after working in an ad agency. In the years 1980-1993 my studio was on Clark St where I shot mostly large format cameras.